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Erik: What is getting easier and what is getting harder in your life?
Mark: I'll start with the harder part. I'll take part B first. I've—since my last interview
here, Capture Your Flag, this is Year 3. In the last year, I got a promotion. I went from
being a senior editor at VH1 to a managing editor at VH1. So one of the challenges and
things that's getting harder in my life is now that I have more people reporting up through
me, staying on top of things and being organized is something that's -- really I'm trying to
learn a lot about. I've always been sort of a last-minute Louie kind of a fellow, you
know, I really appreciate the pressure of deadlines and things like that, and so consequently
I tend to do lots of things sort of at the last minute when it's the 11th hour and the
heat is on, like Glenn Frey used to say. So I'm learning to try to get more organized
in my life and my approach, and so consequently dealing with personal responsibilities and
professional responsibilities, and managing a team of people, that's something that I'm—it's
a new challenge in my life and something I'm looking to get better at. What's getting easier
is I'm at little, about 3 years into my job at VH1 right now, so I've got a better grasp
on how our organization operates, how people interface within the organization, how different
departments work together, how to get the most out of different groups and to be able
to communicate efficiently, and by having some time and some experience in the organization,
I feel like I've got a better sense of things and there's not as much learning process involved,
it's more about honing and refining rather than learning all of the steps.